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Blog Babysitting

Playful Father with Baby on Changing Table photo
Playful Father with Blog-Baby on Changing Table

For the next eight days I’ll be in the Andes with little to no Internet access, so I won’t be publishing new posts. This wasn’t my plan. I wrote a bunch and wanted to schedule them in advance, but the Schedule Post feature in WordPress (what this blog runs on) is a dud and it simply queues the posts ad infinitum. Sigh.

It’s a programming glitch that WordPress has not solved, and if this kind of thing interests you, click here to follow the thread on the WordPress Boards. 

I’ll be back to the blog on Sunday, September 21, with news about my trip to Ausangate and hopefully some great photos to share.

The blog will be open for comments while I’m An American in Cusco, and El Fotografo will be moderating the comments board. Please welcome him onboard as blog babysitter, a position I know he’ll fulfill brilliantly because this is a guy who changes diapers better than I do.

(When El Hijo was a baby, EF used to entertain him on the changing table by blowing on a kazoo as he changed his nappies. EH would lie there enchanted. In contrast, EH never stayed still for me and thrashed around like an alligator while I tried to position the diaper on his behind.)

In other words, El Fotografo is multitalented.

Also check out El Fotografo’s bilingual photography website, his portfolio at photo.net and his photo blog f32.

Si tu quieres hablar con ello en castelleno, esta bien. El es superperuano.

I am an American writer who lived in Lima for seven years (2007-2014), where I covered Andean traditions, melting glaciers and daily life in the capital for Miami Herald, MSNBC and Huffington Post. I now live and work in northern Florida where I champion climate change advocacy and compassionate, affordable eldercare.

One Comment

  • Barb

    Thanks for sitting my blog, EF, while I was talking with campesinos around Ausangate. You did an excellent job; baby looks happy, well fed, w/clean nappy and all. A million besos.